Find and replace with a newline in Visual Studio Code

In the local searchbox (ctrl + f) you can insert newlines by pressing ctrl + enter.

https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/updates/1_38/multiple-line-support.gif

If you use the global search (ctrl + shift + f) you can insert newlines by pressing shift + enter.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/aEmuy.png

If you want to search for multilines by the character literal, remember to check the rightmost regex icon.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/uR2Zc.png

In previous versions of Visual Studio code this was difficult or impossible. Older versions require you to use the regex mode, older versions yet did not support newline search whatsoever.

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With VS Code release 1.38 you can press CTRL + Enter in the editor find box to add a newline character.

https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/updates/1_38/multiple-line-support.gif

With VS Code release 1.30 you can type Shift + Enter in the search box to add a newline character without needing to use regex mode.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPRAI.png

Since VS Code release 1.3, the regex find has supported newline characters. To use this feature set the find window to regex mode and use \n as the newline character.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTuAE.gif

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In version 1.1.1:

Ctrl+H

Check the regular exp icon .*

Search: ><

Replace: >\n<

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Also note, after hitting the regex icon, to actually replace \n text with a newline, I had to use \\n as search and \n as replace.

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Control F for search, or Control Shift F for global search

Replace >< by >\n< with Regular Expressions enabled

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry43k.png

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A possible workaround would be to use the multi-cursor. select the >< part of your example use Ctrl+Shift+L or select all occurrences. Then use the arrow keys to move all the cursors between the tags and press enter to insert a newline everywhere.

This won't work in all situations.

You can also use Ctrl+D for select next match, which adds the next match to the selection and adds a cursor. And use Ctrl+K Ctrl+D to skip a selection.

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On my mac version of VS Code, I select the section, then the shortcut is Ctrl+j to remove line breaks.

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CTRL + H, then select regex (*) and write \n

Shorter version: CTRL+H ALT+R \n

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with v1.31.1 in RegEx mode the Replace All functionality is broken. clicking that button replaces only one instance

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At least for me in VS Code Version 1.62.3 on Windows it is working with regex, as shown below:

Replace Menu CTRL+R Activate "Use Regular Expression (ALT + R)" ALT+R Use [\n] or \n to find all newlines Press "Replace All (CRTL+ALT+Enter)" with an empty field CTRL+ALT+ENTER

https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mrke0.png

In addition, to find newlines at the beginning of a line, use can also use ^[\n] or ^\n:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/PefUu.png

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